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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity

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